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I want to…. Browse our education events. Use film and TV in my classroom. Read research data and market intelligence. Mark Fisher 24 January Patience After Sebald When I read The Rings of Saturn, I was hoping that it would be an exploration of these eerily numinous spaces. Yet what I found was something rather different: a book that, it seemed to me at least, morosely trudged through the Suffolk spaces without really looking at them.

Instead it offered a Mittel-brow miserabilism, a stock disdain, in which the human settlements are routinely dismissed as shabby and the inhuman spaces are oppressive. Rather than engage with previous literary encounters — with the Suffolk where Henry James went on a walking tour, or where his namesake M. James set two of his most atmospheric ghost stories — Sebald tends to reach for the likes of Borges. My scepticism was nourished by the solemn cult that settled suspiciously quickly around Sebald and his books Vertigo, The Emigrants and Austerlitz are the other main titles — all the more so after his premature death in Sebald Credit: Getty Images.

But the photographs were a contrivance: they were snapshots that Sebald would photocopy many times until they achieved the required graininess. In Patience After Sebald , the artist Tacita Dean observes that only children have a real sense of home; adults are always aware of the transitoriness of their dwelling-place — none more so than Sebald, a German writer who spent most of his life in Norfolk.

The shift from rock to literature, Gee told Macfarlane, was one that came naturally to someone whose sensibilities were formed by the UK music culture of the s, in which song titles were portals that could lead you to Conrad, Kafka or Ballard, and the music press — which for many of us then constituted a supplementary education system — would routinely reference Derrida and Baudrillard. If Sebald had been writing in the s, Gee claimed, he would surely have been mentioned in the NME alongside other luminaries of avant-garde literature.

One gains the impression of an author confidently and generously conversant with an otherwise unwieldy academic terrain, and yet following her own patient path.

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This provokes larger questions about academic writing, which Sebald, of course, renounced in order to pursue his creative path. His narrative layers are so complex, perpetually self-undoing in line with his unique, oblique vision, that definitive judgements are hard to make. Simon Ward is lecturer in German, Durham University. Get a month's unlimited access to THE content online. Just register and complete your career summary. Registration is free and only takes a moment.

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